Invent stuff

  • QuanTech
    22nd May 2017 Member 3 Permalink

    You are outside during the winter with only 4 materials.

    • unlimited snow
    • unlimited salt (because usually they sprinkle salt in winters to melt snow)
    • unlimited pencils
    • 2 dry sticks

    Your hunger and thirst doesn't matter here, it's not a survival thing, but rather an invention game. What can you make with just 4 different materials? Here's my idea:

    1. Create a saltwater battery using pencils as graphite electrodes and crushing salt in melted snow (water). Yay electricity
    2. Link a bunch of these batteries in series to create a higher total voltage
    3. Electrolyze water again using graphite electrodes and the mega battery as an electricity source
    4. Hollow out some pencils by taking out the graphite rod, fill up the pencils with h2+o2 gases while the other end of the pencil is blocked by sharp graphite pieces.
    5. Create a really small flame using the 2 sticks (friction heating), and use that to ignite the gasses inside all those pencils. If you have all the pencils pointing the same direction, you'd have a whole bunch of graphite heads being launched out at high speed. Boom. Raining arrows. Of course all the pencils would end up in flames, but who cares about reusability??

    So what do ya got??

  • docRoboRobert
    22nd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    Let's see... I have an idea.

     

    1. Throw sticks away beacouse it's obviously a trap.

    2. Dig a hole using your pencils.

    3. Create coffin from your pencils.

    4. Put lot of snow on your hand and rest of body if you want.

    5. Overhelm yourself with salt.

    6. You body is burning and you're dying in horrible pain. Your wasted body is red and you're covered with salt and tears.

    7. Dryed and devastated body fall into the coffin.

    DONE.

     

    Yes, I'm horrible person...

  • EaterOfCake
    22nd May 2017 Member 2 Permalink

    1. Make an igloo.

    2. Fill it with H2 and O2 using QuanTech's steps 1-3.

    3. Set up a small flame on top of the igloo with the small sticks, burning the rest of the H2 made from electrolysis.

    4. Use snow outside the igloo to make a mini pitfall.

    5. Fill the pitfall with the toxic slurry made from electrolysis of saltwater.

    6. Use the pencils as spikes at the base of the pitfall.

    7. When somebody falls into the pit, they will destroy part of the igloo, causing the H2 to touch the flame, exploding and killing the unlucky victim in the trap.

     

    I'm a nice person :}

  • QuanTech
    22nd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    Creative :))))

  • coryman
    22nd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    1. Steps 1-3 of making the battery and electrolysis
    2. Electrolyse the salt, assuming it's sodium chloride?
    3. Release chlorine gas into the surrounding area and throw lumps of elemental sodium into the snow
    4. ???
    5. Profit

  • QuanTech
    22nd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink
    1. Mix salt with water
    2. Drink saltwater
    3. Die
    4. Profit.
  • docRoboRobert
    22nd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    1. Electrolyze water like in 1-3.

    2. You have unlimited snow and pencils, so repeat this for milion years.

    3. Remove oxygen, beacouse you don't need this trash.

    4. Release that hydrogen!

    5. Create a supergiant star (about 100 solar mass).

    6. Wait milion years.

    7. Watch spectacular Pair-instability supernova.

    8. You have created every element due to massive fusion.

    9. You have every element created.

    10. DO EVERYTHING WHAT YOU WANT.

  • QuanTech
    22nd May 2017 Member 2 Permalink

    @docRoboRobert (View Post)

     WOAHH...!!! Now everybody will build off of your invention. So now you guys have access to almost all the elements in the periodic table... yey

    Edited once by QuanTech. Last: 22nd May 2017
  • docRoboRobert
    23rd May 2017 Member 0 Permalink

    @QuanTech (View Post)

     That's the plan...

  • nukers473
    23rd May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    1. Take uranium and iron and plutonium and hydrogen and other stuff in atomic bombs

    2. Put it all together

    3. Explode them

    4. Kill everyone and yourself

    5. Profit